Overview - Snapdragon 8 Gen 2 Vs Exynos 1280

We have created a comprehensive comparison of the recently released Snapdragon 8 Gen 2 vs Exynos 1280 SoCs by Qualcomm and Samsung respectively. We've now weighed the advantages and disadvantages of these 8-core CPUs on the basis of their Geekbench, Antutu and 3DMark benchmarks with their technical specifications.

Features

Review

CPU Performance
Single and multi-core processor tests
Snapdragon 8 Gen 2 57
Exynos 1280 24
Gaming Performance
GPU performance in games and OpenCL/Vulcan
Snapdragon 8 Gen 2 60
Exynos 1280 18
Battery Life
Efficiency of battery consumption
Snapdragon 8 Gen 2 86
Exynos 1280 82
Tenzys Tech Score
Overall chip score
Snapdragon 8 Gen 2 68
Exynos 1280 41
Benchmarks

AnTuTu 9

Snapdragon 8 Gen 2 Exynos 1280
CPU 270867 121972
GPU 567801 104889
Memory 239879 77341
UX 198202 106223
Total score 1276749 410425
Key Differences

Pros of Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Gen 2

  • Snapdragon 8 Gen 2 has 33.33% higher CPU clock speed than Exynos 1280 (3200 vs 2400 MHz).
  • Snapdragon 8 Gen 2 has 96.91% higher memory frequency than Exynos 1280 (4200 vs 2133 MHz).
  • Snapdragon 8 Gen 2 has 20% smaller sized transistor than Exynos 1280 (4 vs 5 nm).
  • Snapdragon 8 Gen 2 has 211.08% better AnTuTu 9 score than Exynos 1280 (1,277 K vs 410 K).
  • Snapdragon 8 Gen 2 has latest instruction set, hence better than Exynos 1280.
  • Snapdragon 8 Gen 2 Support 108.33% higher memory bandwidth than Exynos 1280 (2500 vs 1200 MHz).

Pros of Samsung Exynos 1280

  • Exynos 1280 has 2.04% higher GPU clock speed than Snapdragon 8 Gen 2 (1000 vs 980 MHz).
Benchmarks

GeekBench 5

Single-Core Score

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Snapdragon 8 Gen 2 1490
Exynos 1280 733

Multi-Core Score

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Snapdragon 8 Gen 2 5198
Exynos 1280 1832

Image compression

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Snapdragon 8 Gen 2 251.3
Exynos 1280 116.6

Face detection

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Snapdragon 8 Gen 2 46.2
Exynos 1280 13.5

Speech recognition

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Snapdragon 8 Gen 2 122.9
Exynos 1280 33.1

Machine learning

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Snapdragon 8 Gen 2 114.1
Exynos 1280 29.3

Camera shooting

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Snapdragon 8 Gen 2 51.7
Exynos 1280 13.1

HTML 5

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Snapdragon 8 Gen 2 5.81
Exynos 1280 1.97

SQLite

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Snapdragon 8 Gen 2 1510
Exynos 1280 556.4

3DMark

Stability %

Graphics test 81 FPS
Stability 99%

Graphics test 13 FPS
Full list of technical specifications

Display

  • Max On-Device Display 4K Ultra HD @ 60 Hz, QHD+ @ 144 Hz Full HD+ @120 Hz
  • Max On-Display Resolution 3840 x 2160 2960 x 1440
  • Max External Display 4K @ 60 Hz -
  • HDR HDR Vivid, HDR10+, HDR10 -
  • Color Depth Up to 10-bit -
  • Color Gamut Rec. 2020 -
Full list of technical specifications

CPU

85%
Turbo Clock Speed

3200 MHz

63%
Turbo Clock Speed

2400 MHz

91%
Base Frequency

2000 MHz

91%
Base Frequency

2000 MHz

  • Architecture 1x 3.2 GHz – Cortex-X3 4x 2.8 GHz – Cortex-A715 3x 2 GHz – Cortex-A510
    2x 2.4 GHz – Cortex-A78
    6x 2 GHz – Cortex-A55
  • Cores 8 8
  • Instruction set ARMv9-A ARMv8.3-A
  • L1 cache - -
  • L2 cache 1 MB -
  • L3 cache 8 MB -
  • Process 4 nm 5 nm
  • Transistor count - -
  • TDP 10 W -
Full list of technical specifications

Graphics

  • GPU name Adreno 740 Mali-G68 MP4
  • Architecture Adreno 700 Valhall 2
  • GPU frequency 980 MHz 1000 MHz
  • Execution units - 4
  • Shading units - 48
  • FLOPS - -
  • Vulkan version 1.3 1.1
  • OpenCL version 2.0 2.
  • DirectX version 12 12
Full list of technical specifications

Memory

  • Memory frequency 4200 MHz 2133 MHz
  • Max bandwidth - -
  • Max Size 24 GB 8 GB
  • Memory type LPDDR5x LPDDR4X
  • Bus 4 x 16 Bit 4x 16 Bit
Full list of technical specifications

Multimedia (ISP)

  • Neural processor (NPU) Yes Yes
  • Storage type UFS 3.1, UFS 4.0 UFS 2.2
  • Max display resolution 3840 x 2160 2960 x 1440
  • Max camera resolution 1 x 200 MP 1x 108MP
  • Video capture 8K at 30FPS, 4K at 120FPS 4K at 30FPS
  • Video playback 8K at 60FPS, 4K at 120FPS 4K at 30FPS
  • Video codecs H.264, H.265, AV1, VP8, VP9 H.264, H.265, VP8, VP9
  • Audio codecs AAC, AIFF, CAF, MP3, MP4, WAV AAC, AIFF, CAF, MP3, MP4, WAV
Full list of technical specifications

Connectivity

  • Modem Snapdragon X70 -
  • 4G support LTE Cat. 24 LTE Cat. 18
  • 5G support Yes Yes
  • Wi-Fi 7 5
  • Bluetooth 5.3 5.2
  • Navigation GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo, QZSS, NAVIC GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo
Full list of technical specifications

Info

Review

Review By TenzysTech

Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Gen 2

CPU
57%
GPU
60%
Memory
49%
Energy efficiency and battery life
86%

Samsung Exynos 1280

CPU
24%
GPU
18%
Memory
25%
Energy efficiency and battery life
82%
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